Archive for the 'Mama Ph.D. News' Category
Review at Girl w/Pen!
January 10th, 2009Deborah Siegel’s blog, Girl w/Pen, is one of the smartest ones out there; she and her co-editors produce smart, sharp, feminist commentary on current events, politics and pop culture. So we’re especially proud today to be reviewed there by Elline Lipkin. Here’s an excerpt:
“The contributors in this book, edited by Caroline Grant and Elrena Evans, [...]
Mama, PhD at the MLA!
January 6th, 2009Usually, graduate students and professors in the humanities tend to dread the annual Modern Language Association convention. After all, it meets right between Christmas and New Year’s, usually in a very cold city, and everybody’s fretting about giving a terrific paper or speaking brilliantly in an interview.
For me, however, now that I am an academic [...]
Mama, PhD review in Bitch magazine
January 6th, 2009The new issue of Bitch has a terrific review of Mama, PhD by Katura Reynolds. Here’s an excerpt:
“While the overall story arcs are sometimes similar, each writer beautifully articulates the personal details of her own experiences. Some of these moments are startlingly beautiful and surprising: Jennifer Eyre White describes how, when catching a moment to [...]
New Review from Mommy Track’d
December 16th, 2008Mommy Track’d has reviewed Mama, PhD this week; here’s an excerpt of the piece by Jo Keroes.
The Ivory Ceiling
If ever there was a book with my name on it, the one I should have written, this is it: Mama PhD, edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant. Full disclosure. I’ve been an academic all my [...]
Caution: Women at Work
December 10th, 2008Plan to attend St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Tenth Annual Women Studies Colloquium, which will include a reading by Mama, PhD contributors Jennifer Cognard-Black, Della Fenster, and Elisabeth Gruner (Tuesday, March 24, 8:00 P. M.). For more information, visit their website.
Reading at University Press Books
November 18th, 2008Lisa Harper, Irena Smith, Caroline Grant, and Jennifer Eyre White recently had the pleasure of reading and answering questions at University Press Books in Berkeley. We’re now planning spring events at the University of Richmond and Duke University; please contact us (editorsATmamaphd.com) if you’d like us to visit your campus!
Mama, PhD Readings in NYC
October 26th, 2008We’re just back from two terrific, enthusiastic events at Bluestockings Bookstore and KGB Bar in New York City. We’re still scheduling bookstore and campus events, so contact us at editors AT mamaphd DOT com if you’d like us to come visit!
Here’s a picture from our Bluestockings reading with Susan O’Doherty, Elrena Evans, Caroline Grant, Nicole [...]
Mama, PhD Readings in Pennsylvania and San Francisco
October 13th, 2008The Mama, PhD Fall Book Tour got off to a great start on opposite coasts yesterday. In Pennsylvania, Elrena Evans and contributor Laura Levitt read to an enthusiastic audience at Barnes & Noble:
And in San Francisco, Caroline Grant read by the light of a disco ball (and Literary Mama colleague Rebecca Kaminsky’s flashlight) to a [...]
A Profile
October 12th, 2008Elrena and I had the great pleasure of sitting down to talk about motherhood, higher education, and our collaboration on Mama, PhD with Terry Dolson last spring; here’s an excerpt:
Back in the late ’80s I was enrolled in an English master’s program. I had done well so far. Since my undergraduate education had been “dead [...]
On Publicity
October 12th, 2008Elrena and I are learning so much about publicity now as we try to spread the word about Mama, PhD, we are guest blogging about it for Cindy Green; check it out:
So you’ve written the book. You’ve gotten an offer, you’ve signed the contract, you’ve edited yourself cross-eyed. Now all you have to do is [...]
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